National Briefing | Midwest: Minnesota: Terror List Delays Marine

Published: April 13, 2006

A Marine reservist, Staff Sgt. Daniel Brown, returning home after eight months in Iraq, was told that he could not board a plane to Minneapolis because his name appeared on a terror watch list. Sergeant Brown, who was returning from the war Tuesday with 26 other Marine military police reservists, was delayed briefly in Los Angeles until the issue was cleared up. The other reservists arrived at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport as scheduled, but instead of meeting their families, they waited on a bus for Sergeant Brown. ''We don't leave anybody behind,'' First Sgt. Drew Benson said. Sergeant Brown, 32, arrived more than an hour later. He had also had airport trouble when he was trying to go to Iraq -- and he missed his plane then as well.